Pike rocks as a judge staring down her own hypocrisy

A searing exploration of legal injustice, ‘Inter Alia’ lands Rosamund Pike’s Jessica in the dock

- By Alice Saville

National Theatre, London

After playing a delightfully brittle matriarch in Saltburn (2023), Rosamund Pike paints an infinitely more complex portrait of motherhood in this brilliantly tense, emotive drama. Inter Alia is playwright Suzie Miller and director Justin Martin’s followup to their West End and Broadway hit Prima Facie. Like that play, which starred Jodie Comer as a young barrister, this one also focuses on sexual assault and the injustices of the legal system. But this time the tone is less crusading, more complexifying, as a female judge is forced to stare down her own hypocrisy.